if you had been bothered to pay attention, there is a long and well documented list of cases and history of ISP's being very anti-consumer/anti-competitive. Now YOU, are offering NO evidence to the contrary, all you are saying is what Mike has pointed out, "Trust us, we won't destroy NN even though we are fighting tooth and nail to have it repealed."

Imagine the outcry, if you will, when say AT&T suddenly charges EVERYONE on it's network an extra $20 to $30 a month just to access Fox News. Or that AT&T would purposely slow Fox News and zero rate CNN (if it goes through and as a hypothetical). Net Neutrality eliminates that. It (in theory) treats CNN the same as Fox as the same as Google, as the same as Apple, etc.

To think that ISP's WON'T do this, means you are blind to past activities of said ISP's, and you are highly delusional.

except for a few things, even though I am not a Lawyer, there are some OBVIOUS 1st amendment issues alone. Namely Freedom of Speech, but more importantly Freedom of the Press.

A regulatory agency, should be doing that, regulating the industries that they are in charge of regulating. Removing those regulations defeats the purpose of actually HAVING that regulatory agency, in this case, the FCC. That is why it is called the FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION, not the "Let's let the communications corporations do what the fuck they want commission".

IF these rules pass, you can bet that they can, and will, be used against those constituents, and then they will cry foul on the rules that they themselves wanted implemented.

I am also of the thought group that content carriers cannot be content providers. It is a Vertical Integration problem. In other words, a few companies are controlling the entire supply chain. From production of content, to distribution of content, to carrying said content. An analogy would be if UP or BNSF owned several coal and iron mines, some steel mills, AND the rail lines. Obviously there are a lot of anti-trust laws that it would be breaking, but here we are with the internet industry in the US.

Citation? Where is your story coming from? Last I heard, Lexington is going to get GB fiber from MetroNet, an Indiana based ISP. That was last week. Also, I would GLADLY take $35 or even as much as $50 for GB fiber as opposed to $70 for 16Mb up/1mb down speeds any day of the week.

Ford and GM buys state laws to prevent any other vehicle manufacturer to sell within the state. Suddenly your only choices of Automobiles are either Ford or GM, EVERYWHERE. Busses, Vans, Semis, Cars, Trucks, all Ford or GM. (This is actually happening with Tesla.)

Now lets say that GM and Ford make an arrangement to not sell in each others markets. Suddenly All of the State of New York is NOTHING but GM, or all of the State of California is NOTHING but Ford. Because they would also have bought laws to the effect of driving a vehicle across state lines either a) is illegal, or b) is prohibitively expensive to licence.

No Mazda, No Toyota, No Lambos, No Porches, or Ferraris. No outdated vehicles either such as AMC, DMC, Duesenburg, or Pontiacs. Now obviously that won't fly because of anti-trust legislation.

But here's the kicker, THAT'S WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH ISP'S. Our choice is either Ford and/or GM. Not only that, the FCC wants us to buy specially branded GM or Ford Fuel as well.